Refreshing, Delicious Handcrafted Drinks

The Takito cocktail program showcases handcrafted margaritas and cocktails centered around various high-end tequilas and rums, in addition to Latin beers and wines. We squeeze fresh juice daily to ensure the absolute best flavor. We will spoil you.

Inviting Contemporary Urban Space

Industrial with modern elements that feature an open bar – smack dab in the middle of the dining room. (there is nothing like it in Chicago!) The room includes an original vintage skylight (1918), long-cement bar, handcrafted maple benches, distressed cedar wood tattered with ebony stains, street art by local Chicago graffiti artists, and custom antique-style lighting. The open bar and kitchen design allow for closer interaction with the guests that adds to a heightened dining experience.

Amazing Atmosphere

Nestled between the vibrant neighborhoods of Wicker Park & Ukrainian Village on Division Street.

Meet Our People

Meet Chef Gustavo Urbina

Head Chef

Chef Urbina brings his culinary experience from the likes of Chef Laurent Tourondel’s BLT Steak & Tom Colicchio’s Beach Craft in Miami Beach. Chef Urbina’s flavors are layered, bright, bountiful, and ignite one’s senses unmatched in Modern Mexican cuisine. His playful ability to combine ingredients that generate sensations that scream ``wow`` makes Chef Urbina someone to watch. Mr. Ponce boasts, ``We are certain that you will agree - his food is amazing.`` According to Angela, Owner of VIP Chicago Parties ``His dishes are beyond amazing. Each bite is like an explosion of flavor in your mouth.`` Chef Urbina is creative; he has a tremendous passion for food and cooking. He believes that each creation is completely unique and deserves completely unique ingredients He has an innate ability to bring together Mexican seasonings, organic ingredients & quality proteins to create a taco sensation that nourishes the soul.

Our Menus

Daily & Private Event Menu

Drink Menu

Dessert Menu

Brunch Menu

Weekly Specials

Taco Tuesday – $3 All Tacos

Choices, choices. All tacos $3 and if you can’t make it out, let us bring it to you!

Tequila Thursday – $6 All Margaritas

Weekend Brunch – $10 Bottomless Mimosas

Discover Takito Kitchen

Takito Kitchen In The News

Chicago Taco's You Must Eat Before You Die - Thrillist

Crispy Fish Taco

Another one of the city’s fine purveyors of chef-driven tacos also serves one of the best modern Mexican takes on the fish taco. All the tortillas are made in-house and the crispy fish taco uses a hibiscus tortilla to mold together the rest of the Southeast Asian flavors. It’s colorful and full of flavor.

It’s easy to get righteous and bemoan the corruption of classic drinks by these pretentious too-fancy-for-their-own-good bartenders, with their weird ingredients and non-sensical combinations. Easy, but wrong. For vindication of our current obsession with not leaving well enough alone head to Takito Kitchen on Division. It features six different variations on the margarita, all more than worthwhile. The cucumber is exactly what you would want and expect from that combination, and the pineapple serrano simply knocks you out with a left hook of tropical flavors.

WTTW’s Emmy award-winning weekly restaurant review series Check, Please!is hosted by Catherine De Orio, who moderatesa rotating panel of three “real people” reviewers. Each panelist chooses their favorite Chicago eatery and sends the other two to dine there and give their opinions. Check, Please! begins its twelfth season on WTTW as the station’s highest rated local program.

In the very first episode of Across the Bar, host Paul Barron visits Chicago’s Takito Kitchen. Combining the knowledge of top chefs and mixologists, Takito’s sophisticated menu pairs custom cocktails withspecialty food items to create a well-rounded dining experience. In this episode, top Mixologist Adam Weber drops some knowledge on creating one-of-a-kind drinks that will leave you speechless (and thirsty). Cheers!